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By Vivek Gupta Benchmark indices started the budget week on a positive note. The S&P 50-share Nifty index managed to reclaim its crucial psychological level of 8850, but the index is expected to remain volatile ahead of the Budget 2015 and February F&O expiry. The volatility is expected to grip the markets in the budget week, which will be extended by one day with trading allowed on Saturday, the Budget day. The Budget session lasts till March 20, the Parliament will reconvene on April 20 and the session is due to conclude on May 8. Nifty Futures had a slightly gap-up opening, traded sideways throughout the last week and continued their pre-budget rally extending its previous week's gains to attain their three week-high.

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Budget session, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today met senior party colleagues to discuss the strategy to be adopted in Parliament where the government intends to pass a number of bills, including converting certain Ordinances into an Acts. The meeting was attended by party veteran A K Antony, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress Leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, its Chief Whip in the Lower House Jyotiraditya Scindia and Congress Deputy Leader in Upper House Anand Sharma.

BAREILLY: Union Minister Kalraj Mishra has said that BJP is reworking its strategy in Uttar Pradesh in the wake of its debacle in the recent Delhi polls but denied that he had attributed the loss to entry of "parachute leaders". Mishra, Minister for Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises, said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) might have stopped the victory run of BJP but there was no lack of zeal among BJP workers. The party was preparing for the 2017 UP assembly elections with full force.

NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has no plans as of now to convene a meeting of non-NDA parties ahead of the Budget session of Parliament starting Feb 23 though the Opposition is raring to rake up issues against the government. Party sources said that Gandhi has so far not initiated any plans for an opposition meet to decide the floor strategy in the three-month long session in which the first full- fledged Budget of the Narendra Modi government will be presented.

NEW DELHI: The Avantha Group has decided to modify the restructuring programme for flagship company Crompton Greaves Ltd at its board meeting on Thursday, two persons aware of the plan told ET. "Promoters have decided to vertically split the consumer and industrial businesses of Crompton Greaves into two parts, creating mirror images of the existing shareholding in the new entities that will be created following demerger," said one of the persons....

NEW DELHI: Ahead of Friday's trial of strength in the Bihar assembly, the JD(U)-RJD-Congress combine has firmed up a three-pronged strategy to counter the Jitan Ram Manjhi-BJP axis on the floor of the House. Their strategy, based on the calculation that there will be no fresh desertion of MLAs from their ranks, includes a plot to foil the Manjhi-BJP bid to immobilise Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary, who has refused to join the Manjhi side, before the trial of strength. The combine is holding out the threat to paralyse the budget session of Parliament if the Centre and BJP leadership imposes President's rule in Bihar to block the return of Nitish Kumar as chief minister . "If PM and BJP chief , even after the lesson of Delhi polls, try to bulldoze the people's mandate in Bihar, they will face the consequences not only in Bihar but also in Parliament.

LONDON: A superior air and sea power, not the titanic land battle as is generally believed, ensured Allied forces' victory in the Second World War, according to a new ground-breaking research which presents the historic event in a completely different light. The research, published today in a major new book titled How the War was Won - 'Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II', represents a major rethinking about how the Second World War was decided. The research undertaken by Phillips O'Brien at the University of Glasgow, using thousands of pages of original documents, has shown that the Allies developed a predominance of air and sea power which put unbearable pressure on Germany and Japan's entire war-fighting machine from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Pacific.

KANPUR: BJP's debacle in the Delhi Assembly polls and the organisational strategy to galvanise the cadre in UP and Bihar where elections are not far away are likely to be discussed threadbare at the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh's four-day meet 'Manthan' which started here today. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will also address thousands of ganvesh (orgnaisation members) at the railway ground here. The deliberations spread over four days, which will be held behind closed doors, will discuss the organisation's strategy to galvanise and energise the cadre with elections in key states Bihar and Uttar Pradesh not very far away.

KOLKATA: State-owned transporter CSTC has chalked out a three-pronged strategy to become self-reliant and transform into a modern agency serving the city. "We have drawn a three-prong strategy towards gradual self -reliance. Monetising real-estate assets, modernisation with aim to push revenue and reducing manpower are the strategies," Calcutta State Transport Corporation (CSTC) Managing Director Bhishmadeb Dasgupta told PTI. Aiming to generate an operating profit of Rs 8 crore for FY15, CSTC has already registered a Rs 5 crore surplus in the August 14-January 15 period, he said.

NEW DELHI: AAP government is all set to change the rules of the game as it assumes power on Saturday. While Delhi bureaucracy is fidgeting over who would be posted out, AAP 2.0 is already rolling on collision course with the media. According to sources, AAP government is planning to bring back the controversial decision taken in December 2013 of making its seat of power — Delhi Secretariat — out of bounds for media personnel. The decision had come under a lot of flak then and was partially rolled back as the media protested over reduced access.